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I see my co-citizens go as robots to the small grocery store, hang out tamely at work and slid without any hope their ballots at the box. Their lives go by while they buy bread — smaller by the day — , cash in a symbolic pay check that does not even cover a sub-life and they raise their hands in the assemblies to name candidates. None of the chosen ones in the current electoral process will be able to solve these everyday problems which weigh heavily on Cuban’s lives. Of the proposed ones we barely know a picture and a biography full of “heroism”, where s/he states —almost always — that s/he is of humble origins. We do not see a word on his programs or intentions after they are sworn to office.
Yoani Sanchez. (via.)
